Here's Every Word That Stumped Spellers During the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee

Time ^ | May 31, 2019

[SMGFan]

A record-breaking number of spellers — 562 — competed their hearts and minds out during this week’s 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. And a record-breaking number beat the bee, with eight contestants crowned “co-champions” at the conclusion of Thursday night’s finale.

For the rest though, a word (or words) got the better of them. Whether their elimination was controversial or incontrovertible (both knockout words in round No. 3), whether it left them feeling dubitative, stolid, or even, say, inured (round No. 3 again), these unlucky competitors made a typo, and got dinged for it — literally dinged, that is, thanks to the bee’s iconic bell used to denote a wrong answer.

[Lisbon1940]

Go ahead and follow all the rulz if you want.

[NorthMountain]

They must have run out of words.

You joke, but that's exactly what happened.

[nicollo]

Most the early rounds words are onomatopoeia, but I’d have lost on “cannellini” — unfair to bring in Italian words! (two n’s or two l’s or one n, what?)

The latter round words are insane.